the beginning of a sad melody. The incense’s cherry glows, and is the only indicator that there’s light within the darkness. The music –a taunting lullaby in her ears– as she holds herself, and doesn’t fight the tears. So many years, she thinks, have I done this; telling myself Shhh. Everything will be okay. The […]
April closed her eyes and waited. Count to ten, she thought. She could hear the man coming closer to her, and willed herself to relax. “Steady, April,” Derek said to her from the earpiece. “Steady.” April nodded, though she knew he couldn’t see, thought about opening her eyes, then let the thought fall away when […]
At the start of January 2012, I was still dating Micheal Hamburger. Which, at the time, I thought was incredible as he was my first long term relationship. And my first. New Year’s Eve I was to baby sit at his house because his mom wanted to go to a party with her husband. The […]
Mistah Kurtz-he dead A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without […]
Despair. It washes over me, sweeps my feet from under me, and leaves me sinking within it. My body shakes. My skin tingles. I struggle to the surface, but the moment I’m close, another wave hits, and I’m falling again. As I sink, I wonder why I’m drowning. My feet hit the bottom of the […]
I…almost gave in to tides today.
